Tropescilloscope: Character Development

A character changes over the course of a narrative. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Hell Is That Noise Not Using the "Z" Word Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience The Musical Hooker with a Heart of Gold Flipping the Bird Pyrrhic Victory Call-Forward Dwindling Party Genre Shift Half the Man He Used to Be Anachronic Order You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Arranged Marriage The '60s Action Survivor Actor Allusion Empathic Environment Developing Doomed Characters Chekhov's Gunman Training Montage Ms. Fanservice Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Bloody Hilarious Artistic License – Gun Safety Red Herring Diabolus ex Machina Curb-Stomp Battle Breaking the Fourth Wall Parental Substitute Scenery Porn All Girls Want Bad Boys Getting Crap Past the Radar Unusually Uninteresting Sight Rich Bitch Badass Normal All There in the Manual Retired Badass Translation Convention Artistic License – Biology The End... Or Is It? Lock and Load Montage Australian Movies Meaningful Echo Genre Throwback Villain with Good Publicity NO INDOOR VOICE Villain Opening Scene Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Never Found the Body An Aesop Mr. Fanservice I Have Your Wife And Starring The Voiceless Dark Is Not Evil Karmic Death Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Double Entendre Artistic License – Law The Ace Word of God Betty and Veronica Contrived Coincidence Eiffel Tower Effect Bring My Brown Pants Disguised in Drag Evil Cannot Comprehend Good The Place Berserk Button Shirtless Scene Didn't Think This Through I Just Shot Marvin in the Face An Arm and a Leg Pragmatic Adaptation Redemption Equals Death Sexy Discretion Shot What Happened to the Mouse? The Stoner Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Bond Villain Stupidity Dark and Troubled Past Fatal Flaw One-Man Army Death by Adaptation Knight Templar Older Than They Look Have a Gay Old Time From Nobody to Nightmare Framing Device "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Corrupt Corporate Executive Dull Surprise Token Minority For Want of a Nail Suspiciously Specific Denial Missing Mom Important Haircut Biopic Dissonant Serenity Stock Footage Eagleland Gender Flip 20 Minutes into the Future Tap on the Head Implacable Man Vacation Films Sports Stories Wounded Gazelle Gambit Improbable Aiming Skills Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Only One Name Darker and Edgier An Axe to Grind Zombie Stories Downer Ending Shell-Shocked Veteran Genre Savvy Bittersweet Ending Sassy Black Woman Combat Pragmatist Unusual Euphemism The Casanova Dark Action Girl Almost Kiss Would Hurt a Child Sadistic Choice Deadpan Snarker It's Personal Four-Temperament Ensemble The Bad Guy Wins Music Stories Mystery and Detective Films Historical In-Joke Intergenerational Friendship Christmas Movies Index Chiaroscuro Fish out of Water Dark Reprise Documentary Motor Mouth Children Are Innocent Dressing as the Enemy Improbable Weapon User Madness Mantra Heterosexual Life-Partners Destination Defenestration Mistaken for Gay The Film of the Book Extreme Doormat The Smart Guy Blatant Lies Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Red Eyes, Take Warning Cool Old Guy In Medias Res Canon Foreigner Instant Death Bullet Random Events Plot Yandere Slashed Throat Continuity Nod Gone Horribly Right Black Comedy Deliberate Values Dissonance Celebrity Paradox Hair-Trigger Temper Taking You with Me Death by Irony Ironic Echo Decoy Protagonist Stalker with a Crush Corpsing Woman Scorned Bald of Evil BFG Pretty Little Headshots Faking the Dead Suspiciously Similar Substitute Even Evil Has Loved Ones Bad Boss Face–Heel Turn This Is Gonna Suck Air-Vent Passageway Cain and Abel Adults Are Useless Mighty Whitey Drives Like Crazy Sinister Minister Silence Is Golden The Alcoholic Expy Malevolent Masked Men Green-Eyed Monster Flashback Made of Explodium I'm a Humanitarian Captain Ersatz Ungrateful Bastard Race Lift Abhorrent Admirer Ghost Fiction Fan Disservice Leave the Camera Running Amusing Injuries Expository Hairstyle Change Film Noir Index Apocalypse How La Résistance N-Word Privileges Market-Based Title Obstructive Bureaucrat For the Evulz Race Against the Clock Bad "Bad Acting" Serious Business Needs Wiki Magic Love Cruel and Unusual Death Homage Scare Chord Becoming the Mask Freeze-Frame Bonus One Steve Limit Animal Title Index Artistic License – History Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Wretched Hive Large Ham Evil Sounds Deep Better to Die than Be Killed The '80s Did Not Get the Girl Japanese Films Very Loosely Based on a True Story Karma Houdini Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Crazy Jealous Guy Creative Closing Credits Calling the Old Man Out Adaptational Attractiveness Visual Pun Sequel Hook Slap-Slap-Kiss Heroic BSoD Action Prologue Reckless Gun Usage Running Gag Animated Credits Opening All Just a Dream Dutch Angle There Is No Kill Like Overkill The Sociopath Big "NO!" Drugs Are Bad Woman in White Vampire Fiction Gilligan Cut Big-Bad Ensemble Evil vs. Evil Sanity Slippage Composite Character Redshirt Army Curse Cut Short Slasher Movie Not Even Bothering with the Accent Mercy Kill Spell My Name with an "S" Unwitting Instigator of Doom Real Life Writes the Plot Bury Your Gays Determinator The Dog Bites Back Evil Is Hammy Manchild Not So Stoic Shut Up, Hannibal! Re-Cut Offscreen Moment of Awesome Insistent Terminology Imagine Spot Humans Are Bastards Spanner in the Works Poor Communication Kills Big Fancy House Scary Black Man Only in It for the Money Fake Shemp Greater-Scope Villain Up to Eleven Worthy Opponent Get Out! Dirty Coward Noodle Incident Jump Scare Rape as Drama Gold Digger Badass Bookworm Rule of Funny Psychopathic Manchild No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Stealth Pun The Quiet One Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Heel Realization The Power of Love Wicked Cultured Shown Their Work Paper-Thin Disguise Country Matters Big Damn Heroes Tempting Fate Canadian Movies Honor Before Reason French Films Hate Sink Evil-Detecting Dog The '50s Determinator aka: The Determinator Double-Meaning Title Star-Crossed Lovers Dumb Blonde Male Frontal Nudity Horror Films Red Right Hand Suddenly SHOUTING! Annoying Younger Sibling Index of Film Westerns Outrun the Fireball Brick Joke Ominous Latin Chanting Dying Moment of Awesome Shower Scene Toplessness from the Back Once More, with Clarity! Precision F-Strike War Is Hell Ass Shove Super Strength Daddy's Girl Fiery Redhead Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Whole Plot Reference Bond One-Liner After the End Psycho for Hire The Reveal Soundtrack Dissonance Demonic Possession And I Must Scream Rewatch Bonus The Starscream Chekhov's Skill Boom, Headshot! Death Glare Monumental Damage Catch-Phrase Five-Man Band The '90s Pretty in Mink Conspicuous CG Martial Arts Movie Narrator folderlabel Undying Loyalty Defrosting Ice Queen Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Dropped a Bridge on Him Horror Comedy Catapult Nightmare Jerk with a Heart of Gold And the Adventure Continues Love Triangle What You Are in the Dark A Father to His Men Anguished Declaration of Love MacGuffin Actually Pretty Funny Those Two Guys Foil Male Gaze You Killed My Father The Mole Rousing Speech Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Unspoken Plan Guarantee Guns Akimbo Politically Incorrect Villain Reality Ensues Say My Name From Bad to Worse Fun with Acronyms Ripped from the Headlines Kick the Son of a Bitch Wham Line Film Series Bloodier and Gorier Death Seeker Kids Are Cruel Blood from the Mouth Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Red Oni, Blue Oni Cowboy Cop Historical-Domain Character Adaptation Expansion Black Comedy Rape Take a Third Option Leitmotif It Can Think Trailers Always Spoil Mad Scientist Domestic Abuse Heel–Face Turn Product Placement In the Back Ambiguous Ending Alas, Poor Villain Bottomless Magazines Took a Level in Jerkass Light Is Not Good The Vamp Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Take That! Creator Cameo Epic Movie Moment Killer The Bully Black Dude Dies First Insult Backfire Novelization A Minor Kidroduction Broken Aesop Antagonist Title A.I. Is a Crapshoot Military and Warfare Films It's All About Me Early-Bird Cameo Danny Peary Cult Movies List A Date with Rosie Palms Eyepatch of Power Cat Fight Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Rule of Three Badass Grandpa The Dragon Wrong Genre Savvy Earn Your Happy Ending Establishing Character Moment Adult Fear Broken Bird Straight Gay The Chessmaster Adaptation Distillation Reasonable Authority Figure Last-Name Basis The Remake Bunny-Ears Lawyer Broken Pedestal Gainax Ending Hypocritical Humor Throwing Your Sword Always Works Artistic License – Geography Not So Above It All Fantastic Racism All Men Are Perverts Nothing Is Scarier Book-Ends Show Within a Show No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Public Domain Feature Films Department of Redundancy Department Cat Scare Dirty Cop Jerkass Has a Point Extremely Short Timespan Disney Death Be Careful What You Wish For Made of Iron Only Known by Their Nickname Logo Joke Epic Fail B-Movie Brainless Beauty British Films Final Girl The Smurfette Principle You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Cluster F-Bomb How We Got Here Red Shirt Riddle for the Ages Depraved Bisexual The Cavalry The Cameo Fate Worse than Death Romantic False Lead Rasputinian Death Wham Shot Italian Films Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Oh, Crap! Car Fu Central Theme Really Gets Around Adaptational Heroism Auto Erotica Playing Gertrude Adapted Out Distracted by the Sexy You Have Failed Me Those Wacky Nazis Big Brother Instinct Reality Has No Subtitles Bar Brawl Spiteful Spit Disney Villain Death Mythology Gag Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Arch-Enemy Cold-Blooded Torture Neck Lift Beard of Evil Closed Circle Unreliable Narrator Armor-Piercing Question My God, What Have I Done? Mugging the Monster No Name Given Improvised Weapon Dirty Old Man Crapsack World The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Action Genre Vomit Discretion Shot The Stoic Video Credits Affably Evil Scenery Gorn Grievous Bottley Harm Camp Gay Break the Haughty Naïve Newcomer Works Set in World War II Intrepid Reporter Freudian Excuse Good Is Not Nice Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Amoral Attorney Plucky Comic Relief Thriller Despair Event Horizon Aluminum Christmas Trees Foreshadowing The Lancer No-Sell Not So Different Driven to Suicide As Long as It Sounds Foreign Sci-Fi Horror Setting Update Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking She Cleans Up Nicely Fourth Date Marriage Famous Last Words Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Dramedy The Atoner Hollywood Law Hong Kong Films Covers Always Lie Affectionate Parody Idiot Ball Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Fainting Storming the Castle Skewed Priorities May–December Romance Pet the Dog Retirony The Hero Chewing the Scenery Too Dumb to Live The Un-Reveal Beta Couple Due to the Dead Real Life "The Reason You Suck" Speech No Celebrities Were Harmed The Brute Bilingual Bonus Parental Neglect Adaptation Dye-Job Humiliation Conga My Greatest Failure Adaptational Badass Irony Dogged Nice Guy Black Best Friend The Ghost Badass Longcoat Break the Cutie Villain Song No OSHA Compliance Not Quite Dead Agony of the Feet Never My Fault Cool Car Historical Villain Upgrade Bound and Gagged Obfuscating Stupidity Put on a Bus Badass Boast Alliterative Name Refuge in Audacity Together in Death Your Cheating Heart Even Evil Has Standards Sealed Evil in a Can Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Silent Movie Card-Carrying Villain Spiritual Successor Plot Hole O.O.C. Is Serious Business Gory Discretion Shot Hope Spot Retcon Damsel in Distress Fantasy Films Stealth Hi/Bye Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Overly Long Gag Love at First Sight I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Hollywood Darkness Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Deus ex Machina Well-Intentioned Extremist Funny Background Event Batman Gambit Camera Abuse Bolivian Army Ending Maybe Ever After Fingore Totally Radical Credits Gag Henpecked Husband Leaning on the Fourth Wall Television Movie Index Defiant to the End Fat Bastard Gorn Kill It with Fire Death of a Child Vomit Indiscretion Shot The Hero Dies Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Author Appeal Fatal Family Photo Eldritch Abomination A God Am I Awesome, but Impractical Cool Guns Frame-Up Adaptation Name Change World of Ham Stepford Smiler Same Language Dub As You Know Sir Swears-a-Lot Black and Gray Morality Our Vampires Are Different No Ending Beauty Is Never Tarnished Adorkable The X of Y The Dreaded Character Development Meet Cute Pre-Mortem One-Liner Based on a True Story Romantic Comedy Chase Scene Men Are the Expendable Gender Loophole Abuse Anyone Can Die Brutal Honesty As the Good Book Says... Action Girl Truth in Television Peek-a-Boo Corpse Small Name, Big Ego Serial Killer Big Bad Duumvirate Hero Antagonist All for Nothing Drill Sergeant Nasty Stylistic Suck Recycled IN SPACE! Deliberately Monochrome Loads and Loads of Characters Creepy Child Accidental Murder Bowdlerise Femme Fatale Posthumous Character Enemy Mine Does Not Like Shoes Naked People Are Funny Shout-Out Cassandra Truth Evil Plan Death by Sex Morality Pet Film Noir Pimped-Out Dress Authority Equals Asskicking Funny Foreigner Major Injury Underreaction Hidden Depths Captain Obvious Easily Forgiven Left the Background Music On Only Sane Man Police Brutality Match Cut Deal with the Devil "Well Done, Son!" Guy Dramatic Irony It Will Never Catch On Papa Wolf Girl-on-Girl Is Hot More Dakka Face Death with Dignity Shipper on Deck Ascended Extra Ship Tease Historical Hero Upgrade Crucified Hero Shot Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies I Need a Freaking Drink Disproportionate Retribution Obviously Evil Daylight Horror The Mafia Those Two Bad Guys Bland-Name Product Time Skip Hoist by His Own Petard Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Spared by the Adaptation Psychological Thriller Dramatic Gun Cock Cool Shades Pragmatic Villainy Disappeared Dad Punctuated! For! Emphasis! All There in the Script Mind Screw Kubrick Stare Grey and Gray Morality Manipulative Bastard Gratuitous English The Great Depression Brother–Sister Incest Lampshade Hanging True Companions Ambiguously Gay Anti-Hero Dies Wide Open Revenge Off-into-the-Distance Ending Married to the Job Mama Bear Title Drop The Faceless Mexican Standoff Big Eater Off with His Head! Offscreen Teleportation Nice Guy Insane Troll Logic Soft Glass Rule of Symbolism Manic Pixie Dream Girl Early Installment Weirdness "Shaggy Dog" Story Exactly What It Says on the Tin Does This Remind You of Anything? Kill 'em All Arc Words Heroes Want Redheads Immune to Bullets Babies Ever After Alpha Bitch Russian Films Bavarian Fire Drill Never Trust a Trailer Heroic Sacrifice Room Full of Crazy Coming-of-Age Story Abusive Parents Author Avatar Every Car Is a Pinto She's Got Legs Knife Nut Only a Flesh Wound Laughing Mad My Beloved Smother Punch-Clock Villain Jerkass "Awesome McCool" Name Crazy-Prepared Smoking Is Cool Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" He Knows Too Much Cloudcuckoolander Laser-Guided Karma Jerk Jock Foregone Conclusion In Name Only Eye Scream Artistic License – Physics Slasher Smile Let's Get Dangerous! Make It Look Like an Accident Neck Snap Failed a Spot Check Shoot the Shaggy Dog Lighter and Softer Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Pay Evil unto Evil The Lost Lenore Cool Old Lady Tranquil Fury Mood Whiplash Drowning My Sorrows Artistic License – Military German Films Demoted to Extra Back from the Dead Fanservice Sacrificial Lion Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Informed Ability Hypocrite Bait-and-Switch Faux Affably Evil Fanservice Extra Guile Hero Aside Glance Asshole Victim Parental Incest Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Mr. Exposition Groin Attack Exact Words Roaring Rampage of Revenge Attempted Rape Beware the Nice Ones Here We Go Again! Jitter Cam Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Award-Bait Song The Ditz Anachronism Stew Big Bad Chekhov's Gun Casting Gag Ambiguous Disorder I Did What I Had to Do Nice Hat Costume Porn Friend to All Children Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Bloodless Carnage Stuff Blowing Up Our Zombies Are Different Taking the Bullet The '70s Protagonist Title Call-Back Sequel Escalation Evil Is Petty The Big Guy Badass in a Nice Suit Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Ugly Guy, Hot Wife The Oner Blood Knight Unresolved Sexual Tension Villain Ball Man on Fire Took a Level in Badass Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Belligerent Sexual Tension Accidental Misnaming Anti-Villain Comically Missing the Point Blackmail Names to Run Away from Really Fast Advertised Extra Line-of-Sight Name Meaningful Background Event Rated M for Manly Butt-Monkey Hero of Another Story Not What It Looks Like Parental Abandonment Deconstruction Overprotective Dad Meaningful Name Villain Protagonist Twist Ending The Stinger The Chick Animal Motifs Mundane Made Awesome Self-Deprecation As Himself Manly Tears Properly Paranoid He Who Fights Monsters Evil Brit Body Horror Reality Is Unrealistic Everyone Has Standards Mooks Evil Counterpart Fire-Forged Friends Interrupted Suicide Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Ax-Crazy Your Head A-Splode Adaptational Villainy Science Fiction Films Sole Survivor Eureka Moment Police are Useless Would Hit a Girl Superhero The Load Kick the Dog timeperiod No Antagonist Facial Horror '80s Hair One-Word Title Tagline Evil Laugh Bi the Way Victoria's Secret Compartment Killed Mid-Sentence The Alleged Car What the Hell, Hero? Vitriolic Best Buds Bullying a Dragon Dual Wielding Bare Your Midriff Darkest Hour Happily Married Rule of Cool Age Lift Smug Snake Punny Name Non-Indicative Name Villainous Breakdown Handicapped Badass Big Applesauce